Gallows Hill, Pennsylvania
Unincorporated community in Pennsylvania, United States
40°31′50″N 75°13′19″W / 40.53056°N 75.22194°W / 40.53056; -75.2219418930
Gallows Hill is an unincorporated community in Springfield Township in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, United States. Gallows Hill is located at the intersection of Pennsylvania Route 412 and Stony Garden Road/Gallows Hill Road.[3]
Etymology
The community's name was derived from an 18th-century traveler who hanged himself from a tree.[4]
References
- ^ "Gallows Hill". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.
- ^ "PHMC Historical Markers Search" (Searchable database). Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Retrieved January 25, 2014.
- ^ Bucks County, Pennsylvania (Map) (19th ed.). 1"=2000'. ADC Map. 2006. p. 2583. § E5. ISBN 0-87530-774-4.
- ^ Davis, William Watts Hart (1905). History of Bucks County, Pennsylvania: From the Discovery of the Delaware to the Present Time. Lewis Publishing Company. p. 38.
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